Daddy's Helper!!

Travis has been so wonderful and spending the summer working on a remodel for our house. We are adding a pantry/laundry room that will be connected to our kitchen. My favorite part is that Xander loves to help out his dad with all the work. Xander has his own set of tools and loves to use those to fix his "handy-manny truck" that Grandma and Grandpa got Aeryn for Christmas.



But you better watch out when you put REAL tools down somewhere. Travis will put down a tool just for a moment to work on something, and Xander will get it and start helping out with whatever Travis was doing...or maybe even start his own project!! Here he is using some sort of scrapper tool to help Travis pull out the stairs.


No matter how hard I entice him to do something else....he always goes back to his dad!! What a cute little daddy's boy...and Travis doesn't mind one bit :)

To my mom!!

I am really lucky to have such a wonderful mom!! She has always been such a great example to me....she is a woman of great love, a woman of great faith in our Savior Jesus Christ, a woman who cares for her children, a woman who is organized and knows how to keep a clean house :), a woman who is willing to help others, a woman who is a wonderful wife, and most important, a woman who is lives a righteous life based upon the principle of the Gospel of Jesus Christ!! I am grateful for mom and the wonderful friend and mom she has always been to me!!

Happy Mother's Day Mom!! I love you!!!

my mom and dad

my mom as a super cute teenage girl!!

my mom (and her dad...poppa) on the day she got married...so beautiful!!

Mud Puddle

With the weather being so nice, the kids spent some time playing outside while travis was working on the yard. They were enjoying playing with the hose and decided that they should make a big puddle. It turned out to be quite gigantic and they were covered in mud!! The both kept saying it was the best day of their lives...until travis sprayed them down with the hose and then sent them in for a bath :)

Accident with the doll house

Xander decided that it would be fun to climb up the doll house....It is a really tall doll house...probably a little taller than Ellie. The doll house ended up falling over on him. He ended up splitting his eye lid open. Luckily he didn't need stitches, but it swelled up pretty good and he looked like a boxer! :)

Playing in the dirt!

Travis and I were in the front yard, doing some much needed spring clean up of the yard. Xander spent the day outside with us and loved to sit and play in the dirt...It was so cute to see him!!

Xander's Chair!!

My parents got this chair for Ellie when she was about Xander's age!! It has been a wonderful chair. He loves to go sit in his chair and eat a snack, or read books...it is so cute!

Locks of Love

Ellie has wanted to donate her hair to Locks of Love for about 1 1/2 years. I told her that was fine and we would do it when her hair got long enough. Funny thing....it got long enough, but I loved it so much I hoped that she would forget donating her hair. She didn't forget. So I told her I would go online and find out what we needed to do. I guess I took to long, because the other night, she googled "locks of love" and found out everything we needed to know!! A very determined girl!! So we did it!! She felt really proud of herself and we were really proud as well!

Doesn't she look so cute!!